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VIII
CONFERENCE
"TRANSFORMING GOVERNMENT IN ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION"
November, 2 - 4, 2000
Nakhimovsky
Prospect 47, 117418 Moscow
List
of participants
Abstracts
Thursday,
2 November
10:00-10:15,
room 521
Opening ceremony Chairmen:
Gur Ofer, Valery
Makarov
10:15
– 11:35, room 521
Session
1
Enterprise Financing and the Role of the Government
Project
leaders: Ekatherina Zhuravskaya, Enrico Perotti
Chairman: Barry
Ickes
- Maria
Ponomareva, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya: Federal tax arrers:
liquidity constraints, federal subsidies or regional protection?
- Evgeniy
Orlov, Elena Paltseva, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya: Determinants
of government subsidies to industrial firms: firm-level evidence
- Akhmed
Akhmedov: Ex-ante-rationality
of real sector bank lending
Discussant:
Francisco Marhuenda
11:35
- 11:50, room 520 Coffee/Tea
11:50
- 13:30, room 521
Session
2
Foreign Direct Investment in Russia
Project
leaders: Kseniya Yudaeva, Pavel Kadochnikov, Rudiger Ahrend
Chairman: Oleg
Eismont
- Rudiger
Ahrend, Foreign
Direct Investment Into Russia – Pain Without Gain? A Survey of Foreign
Direct Investors
- KseniyaYudaeva,
Konstantin Kozlov, Natalya Melentieva, and Natalya Ponomareva: Does
Foreign Ownership Matter? Russian Experience
- Sergey
Kadochnikov, Tatyana Kulakova: Spillovers from FDI:
the role of capital
- Irina
Schepina: FDI in Voronezh Oblast
Discussant:
Klaudia Kemfert, Kirill
Sosunov
13:30
- 14:45 Lunch
14:45
- 16:15, room 521
Session 3
Bankruptcy Procedures in Russia: Improving Efficiency, Combating Corruption
Project leaders: Constantin Sonin, Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky
Chairman: Alexander Vasin
- Constantin
Sonin, Koen Schoors: Creditor Passivity and Bank Regulation:
A General Equilibrium Approach
- Ariane
Lambert-Mogiliansky: Corruption in Liquidations - Agreeing
to Share the Market in Public tenders
- Aleksey
Makrushin: Bankruptcy and Liquidity Constraint
Discussant:
Rudiger Ahrend
16:15
- 16:30, room 520 Coffee/Tea
16:30
- 18:00, room 521
Keynote
Address
Chairman:
Valery Makarov
Oleg V'yugin ("Troyka-Dialog")
18:00,
room 520 Reception
Friday,
3 November
10:00
- 11:30, room 521
Session
4
Corporate Governance in Russian Firms
Project
leaders: Sergei Guriev, David Brown
Chairman: Gerard Roland
- David
Brown, Maria Goltsman: Empirical
Analysis of Managerial Turnover in Russian Firms
- Sergei
Guriev: Barter
and Corporate Governance in Russia
- Natalya
Volchkova: Does
Financial-Industrial Group Membership Affect Fixed Investment: Evidence
from Russia
Discussant: Viktor Dementyev, Andrey Yakovlev
11:30
- 11:45, room 520 Coffee/Tea
11:45
- 13:15, room 521
Session
5
Political Economy of Russian Transition: Incentives of Policy Makers
and Quality of Governance
Project
leaders:
Leonid Polishchuk, Victor
Polterovich
Chairman: Anthony
Shorrocks
- Victor
Polterovich:Rent Seeking, Tax Policy and Economic Growth
- Leonid
Polishchuk:
Political Economy of Scale and Endogenous Rule of Law
- Alexander
Tonis: State Patronage over Firms: a Model of Endogenous
Regulation
Discussant:
Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky
13:15
- 14:30 Lunch
14:30
-16:00, room 521
Distinguished Lecture
Chairman:
Barry Ickes
Adrian Pagan (Ausrtralian National University): Analysing
Cycles
16:00
- 16:20, room 520 Coffee/Tea
16:20
- 17:50
Session
6
Restructuring Financial System and Banking Sector in Russia
Project
leaders: Evsei Gurvich, Giovanni Urga
Chairman: Jan Magnus
- Evsey
Gurvich: Looking
Back at the Russian Financial Crisis
- Sneganna
Peretyagina: Russian
Banks' Efficiency Before and After the Crisis
Discussant:
Stanislav
Anatolyev, Bridgitte Granville
Saturday,
4 November
10:00
- 11:30, room 521
Session
7
The Role of Regional and Local Governments in the Economic Reforming
in Russia
Project
leaders: Valery Makarov, Daniel Berkowitz
Chairman: Kseniya Yudaeva
- Valery
Makarov: About An Institutional Equilibrium And Its Application
To A Federal State
- Yury
Andrienko: Factors Behind Crime Growth In Russia: A Regional
Approach
- Sergey
Yudakov: Possible
Stable Regional Coalitions In Russia: Economic Background
Discussant:
David Brown
11:30
- 11:45, room 520 Coffee/Tea
11:45
- 13:15, room 521
Session
8
Tax Optimization under Corruptible Tax Administration
Project
leaders: Alexander Vasin, Francisco Marhuenda
Chairman: Victor
Polterovich
- Igor
Mouraviev, Alexander Vasin The
optimal tax enforcement and corruption in fiscal administration
- Alexander
Vasin, Polina Vasina Tax
Optimization under tax evasion
- Francisco
Marhuenda, Alexander Vasin, Polina Vasina Tax
enforcement for heterogenous firms
Discussants:
Leonid
Polischuk, Mark
Levin
13:1
5 - 14:15, Lunch
14:15
-15:45
Session
9
Russian Social Issues and Policy Reforms
Project
leaders: Irina Denisova, Anthony Shorrocks, Kseniya Yudaeva
Chairman: Yasushi Toda
- Anthony
Shorrocks, Stanislav Kolenikov: Powerty
Trends in Russia During the Transition
- Dmitry
Spryskov: Persistent
Poverty in Russia
- Irina
Denisova, Stanislav Kolenikov, and Kseniya Yudaeva: Child
Benefits and Child Poverty
Discussant:
Judith Shapiro
15:45
Closing ceremony
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